Dell PowerConnect 8024 User manual

Dell PowerConnect
8024, 8024F, 8132, 8132F, 8164,
and 8164F Switch
User’s Configuration
Guide
Regulatory Models: PC8024, PC8024F,
PC8132, PC8132F, PC8164, PC8164F

Notes and Cautions
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your computer.
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instructions are not followed.
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Regulatory Models: PC8024, PC8024F, PC8132, PC8132F, PC8164, PC8164F
June 2012 Rev. A03

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Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
About This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Document Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Additional Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2 Switch Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
System Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Multiple Management Options . . . . . . . . . . . 54
System Time Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Log Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Integrated DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Management of Basic Network Information . . . . 55
IPv6 Management Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Dual Software Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
File Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Switch Database Management Templates. . . . . 56
Automatic Installation of Firmware and
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
sFlow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SNMP Alarms and Trap Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
CDP Interoperability through ISDP . . . . . . . . . 57
Remote Monitoring (RMON) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Stacking Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
High Port Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Single IP Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Automatic Firmware Update for New Stack M
embers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Master Failover with Transparent Transition . . . . 59
Nonstop Forwarding on the Stack . . . . . . . . . 59
Hot Add/Delete and Firmware
Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Security Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Configurable Access and Authentication
Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Password-Protected Management Access . . . . 60
Strong Password Enforcement . . . . . . . . . . . 60
TACACS+ Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
RADIUS Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
SSH/SSL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Inbound Telnet Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Denial of Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Port Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Captive Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Dot1x Authentication (IEEE 802.1X) . . . . . . . . . 62
MAC-Based 802.1X Authentication . . . . . . . . . 62
Dot1x Monitor Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
MAC-Based Port Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Access Control Lists (ACL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Time-Based ACLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
IP Source Guard (IPSG). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
DHCP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Dynamic ARP Inspection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Protected Ports (Private VLAN Edge). . . . . . . . 65
Switching Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Flow Control Support (IEEE 802.3x) . . . . . . . . . 65
Head of Line Blocking Prevention . . . . . . . . . 65
Alternate Store and Forward (ASF). . . . . . . . . 65

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Jumbo Frames Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Auto-MDI/MDIX Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
VLAN-Aware MAC-based Switching. . . . . . . . 66
Back Pressure Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Auto Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Broadcast Storm Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Port Mirroring. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Static and Dynamic MAC Address Tables . . . . . 68
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) . . . . . . . 68
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) for
Media Endpoint Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Priority-based Flow Control (PFC) . . . . . . . . . 68
Data Center Bridging Exchange (DBCx)
Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Enhanced Transmission Selection . . . . . . . . . 69
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
Initialization Protocol Snooping . . . . . . . . . . 69
Cisco Protocol Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
DHCP Layer 2 Relay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Virtual Local Area Network Supported Features . . . . 70
VLAN Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Port-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
IP Subnet-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
MAC-based VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
IEEE 802.1v Protocol-Based VLANs . . . . . . . . 71
GARP and GVRP Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Voice VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Guest VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Double VLANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Spanning Tree Protocol Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Spanning Tree Port Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Rapid Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Multiple Spanning Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard. . . . . . 74
BPDU Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Link Aggregation Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Link Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Link Aggregate Control Protocol (LACP) . . . . . . 74
Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Table
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
VLAN Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
IP Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) . . . . . . . . . . 76
BOOTP/DHCP Relay Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
IP Helper and UDP Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Routing Information Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Router Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Routing Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) . . . . 78
Tunnel and Loopback Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . 78
IPv6 Routing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
IPv6 Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
IPv6 Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
OSPFv3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
DHCPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Quality of Service (QoS) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Differentiated Services (DiffServ) . . . . . . . . . 80
Class Of Service (CoS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Auto Voice over IP (VoIP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Internet Small Computer System Interface
(iSCSI) Optimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

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Layer 2 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
MAC Multicast Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
IGMP Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
IGMP Snooping Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
MLD Snooping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Multicast VLAN Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Layer 3 Multicast Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol . . . . 83
Internet Group Management Protocol . . . . . . . 83
IGMP Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Protocol Independent Multicast—
Dense Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Protocol Independent Multicast—
Sparse Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Protocol Independent Multicast—Source
Specific Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Protocol Independent Multicast IPv6 Support . . . 84
MLD/MLDv2 (RFC2710/RFC3810) . . . . . . . . . . 84
3 Hardware Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
PowerConnect 8000-series and 8100-series
Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
PowerConnect 8024 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 85
PowerConnect 8024F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 86
PowerConnect 8132 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8132F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 87
PowerConnect 8164 Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . 88
PowerConnect 8164F Front Panel . . . . . . . . . 89
Hot-Pluggable Interface Modules . . . . . . . . . 90
USB Port (Power Connect 8100-series
switches only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Port and System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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PowerConnect 8000-series and 8100-series
Back Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Console Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Out-of-Band Management Port. . . . . . . . . . . 93
Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Ventilation System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
LED Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Port LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
System LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Switch Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
4 Using Dell OpenManage Switch
Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
About Dell OpenManage Switch Administrator. . . . 101
Starting the Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Understanding the Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Defining Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Understanding the Device View . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Using the Device View Port Features. . . . . . . 106
5 Using the Command-Line Interface . . . . 107
Accessing the Switch Through the CLI . . . . . . . . 107
Console Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Telnet Connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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Understanding Command Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Entering CLI Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Using the Question Mark to Get Help . . . . . . . 111
Using Command Completion . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Entering Abbreviated Commands . . . . . . . . . 112
Negating Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Understanding Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 113
Recalling Commands from the History Buffer . . . 113
6 Default Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
7 Setting the IP Address and Other
Basic Network Information . . . . . . . . . . 119
IP Address and Network Information Overview . . . . 119
What Is the Basic Network Information? . . . . . 119
Why Is Basic Network Information Needed? . . . 120
How Is Basic Network Information
Configured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
What Is Out-of-Band Management and
In-Band Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Default Network Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Configuring Basic Network Information (Web) . . . . . 124
Out-of-Band Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
IP Interface Configuration (Default VLAN
IP Address) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Route Entry Configuration (Switch Default
Gateway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Domain Name Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Default Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

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Dynamic Host Name Mapping . . . . . . . . . . 131
Configuring Basic Network Information (CLI). . . . . 132
Enabling the DHCP Client on the OOB Port . . . . 132
Enabling the DHCP Client on the Default
VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Managing DHCP Leases . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Configuring Static Network Information on the
OOB Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Configuring Static Network Information on the
Default VLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Configuring and Viewing Additional Network
Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Basic Network Information Configuration
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
8 Managing QSFP Ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
9 Managing a Switch Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Stacking Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Creating a PowerConnect 8000/8100 Series
Stack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
How is the Stack Master Selected? . . . . . . . 144
Adding a Switch to the Stack . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Removing a Switch from the Stack . . . . . . . . 146
How is the Firmware Updated on the Stack?. . . 147
What is Stacking Standby? . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
What is Nonstop Forwarding? . . . . . . . . . . 147
Switch Stack MAC Addressing and Stack
Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
NSF Network Design Considerations. . . . . . . 151
Why is Stacking Needed? . . . . . . . . . . . . 151